Purpose: This study aims to investigate how firms’ internationalization activities through exporting influence their organizational learning. Specifically, this study examines how the level of exporting and geographic market scope impact a firm’s exploratory and exploitative R&D investment...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether, when and how customer orientation may contribute to success in introduction of new products (SINP). Design/methodology/approach: With a multi-phase and multi-source data collection approach, this study tested the proposed theoretical...

Purpose: The authors attempt to answer the basic questions: How is imitation tied to innovation? This question is addressed in the context of China's innovation system in the 2000s where Chinese industrial firms simultaneously implement innovation and imitation strategies in their new product...

Poverty reduction has increasingly become a core subject for researchers across the social sciences from economics to finance, management, and entrepreneurship. This study goes beyond existing management and entrepreneurship literature that has devoted significant efforts to exploring...